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Council for Innovation Promotion Releases Report on Licensing Negotiation Groups by Professor Jonathan Barnett

WASHINGTON (April 14, 2026) — Today, the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) released a new report examining the market impact of licensing...

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An Unbalanced Proposal: Licensing Negotiation Groups for Wireless Technology in the Automotive Industry
C4IP Coalition Updates: March 2026

March Highlights: Countering Chinese Threats to IP In March, China released its 15th Five-Year Plan — an economic policy roadmap that envisages...

This Month in IP: March 2026

Strong, consistent IP protections throughout U.S. history enabled the creation of innovative and useful technologies that we use regularly today. From movies...

Op-Ed from former USPTO Director David Kappos: The Nobel Prize winners have a lesson for us all

In a piece published by Fortune, C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director David Kappos explains how the work of three Nobel Prize-winning...

Continued Innovation is the Key to Maintaining U.S. National Security

The New York Times Editorial Board recently released a multi-part series, “Overmatched,” exploring the ways in which “the U.S. military is ill...

The U.S. can win the AI race — if it gets patent policy right
Fortune
New Op-Ed from Ambassador Jeffrey Gerrish and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu: Foreign nations profited off of us — now Trump is striking back

Ambassador Jeffrey Gerrish, former deputy U.S. Trade Representative, and Andrei Iancu, C4IP co-chair and former USPTO director, recently published an opinion piece...

Closing the PTAB Loophole: Targeting Real Threats to U.S. Innovation Without Overreaching
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IPWatchdog Masters Hall of Fame: 2026 Award Recipients
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C4IP Letter to House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet RE: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Fact Check: Limiting Injunctive Relief Harms, Not Helps, Inventors

Among the most consequential foreign policy developments is the European Union’s (EU’s) consideration of policies that could limit access to injunctive relief....

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Quintet of Ex-Patent Office Officials Slam Proposed Rulemaking,

05/28/2024

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Fact Check: Price Controls Would Not Make Diabetes Treatments More Accessible,

05/24/2024

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C4IP Urges Senate Judiciary to Ignore Common Myths About Drug Patents,

05/23/2024

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Group chaired by former USPTO directors questions office’s AI guidance over ‘human contribution’,

05/21/2024

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C4IP Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee RE: May 21, 2024 Hearing on Drug Prices,

05/20/2024

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Industry Reacts to USPTO Guidance on Using AI to Innovate,

05/20/2024

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C4IP Letter to Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee RE: The Invent Here, Make Here Act of 2023,

05/15/2024

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USPTO Guidance On AI And Patents Draws Worry And Praise,

05/14/2024

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C4IP Comments RE: Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (PTO-P-2023-0043),

05/13/2024

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Inventor Spotlight: William Coolidge,

05/13/2024

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C4IP Comments RE: Unlocking the Full Potential of Intellectual Property by Translating More Innovation to the Marketplace (PTO-C-2024-0004),

05/13/2024

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Why Is The US Helping China Undermine Global Innovation?,

05/13/2024

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